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Legislation
Clean Elections Bill (2006)
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"While Congress wallows in the ethical swamp where
money and politics meet, one more state just found a way out.
Voters [in Connecticut] will pay for campaigns, which might be
the bargain of the century. They'll save countless dollars doled from public coffers to the
favor seekers who fund campaigns now."
-- USA TODAY EDITORIAL
”Public financing is the difference
between being able to go out and spend your time talking
with voters, meeting with groups, . . . traveling to communities
that have been under-represented in the past, as opposed
to being on the phone selling tickets to a $250 a plate
fundraiser.” -- Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano,
elected under Arizona's Voter Owned Elections program
“We Clean Elections [Voter Owned Elections]
pioneers are a more independent bunch, especially because
we’re not worrying about how we’re going
to raise the big bucks to win our next race. Lobbyists
for special interests tend to spend less time with us,
which makes it easier to get through the Capitol halls
in time for a vote.” -- Glenn Cummings, & Ed Youngblood, Maine State legislators,
elected using Voter Owned Elections
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